Judge — May 10, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Daughters of the American Retrogression ue D. AL R. does not not cnough people take it seri- ously any more. But every so often it pulls a trick so silly as to get publicity. r of citizens too dumb to do thinking. They get all upset. If that’s the idea of 1 ints of those grand patriots who founded our republic, isn’t it likely to he the true ? And then a lot of patient expla as to be done. You have to tell ther at the good ladies who make up the rank and file of the D. A. R. don’t know much about such matters. ‘They join because they have to belong to something, to fill in the when they aren't with bridge or the hairdresser. Being sus- ceptible to the lure of the exclusive, they like to join something that every- dy can't belong to. Having mi pride of ancestry than power of anal- ysis, they leave the affairs of the or- ation to their leaders. And these ire no more spokesmen of authentic Americanism than are the members of the Union League Club. ‘Their oppo: sition to the World Court and to re- duction of armaments is futile and meaningless. ‘The healthy spirit. of the Revolution no longer dwells in them. They would better call them- the Daughters of the American Retrogression, deserve because This is seen by a numb who are their own 00 women descend days busy sani selve Do Not Send Us Fake Laws ome contributors are sending us laws which obviously they have invented themselves. Not that they are trying to put something over on us. They just don’t seem to under- stand what we are after. The laws illustrated each week on the } posite may be funny, but the made up out of anybody's in They are genuine in all seriousness by American legis- lators and not repealed. Send us tion, JUDGE freak laws, In a few laws which were actually adopted beeause but not fake laws. cases We are accepting introduced but not they illus- e the tendency of our legislative busy-bodies. For example: DA bill islature teed in’ the would inds for the mar- © if the lady had induced the pro al by “artificial means, false hair or rouge.” intr Georgia have made it mmnulment The mayor of Wilke recently submitted to th 3 a resolution which declares that “those who insist on going hatless in winter ather be declared insane and pliced behind the walls of asylums.” Here's another ¢ Jaw, but) deserves mention: A oman in’ North Carolina shot across the border line and killed a Virginia, The governor re- sround that womitted in rious one that isn'ta man in fused extradition on th erime had net been orth olin, And it may further interest the peo- ple of North Carolina te know that the famous Carolina Playmakers, the University G Club, the fraternity dances and the nical collection of the University of North Carolina are a law which forbids *. dancing or the ex- hibition of natural curiosities within five miles of Chapel Hill, Quack! tpn “lame-duck” endiment Ties heen pigeon-holed sin, = We zetting pretty tired of printing this item year after year, But a jour- nee demands that the people be kept informed of the hardi- hood of the politicians in. perennially quashing this obviously desirable. re- form, The “lame duck” of Congress who has been defeated at the November elections but gaily wad- dl ck to Washington to le the following March. ‘The “short are stic conse is a member 1s session,” during which the lame ducks i most alwa fertile in It is ofte rnival nd filibustering. And the lame duck, who is hoping to get a Federal appointment so that he centinue to feed at the trough, is pe- culiarly responsive to the wishes ¢ the party leaders. The Norris amend- surviv had legislation. rolling ean ment would abolish the short session and bring the newly clected Congress and President into of two months earlier, so that the congressman who had been repudiated by his constitu ents would have nothing more to say about making the laws of the land. Such an amendment has been urged for a century and a half. It ought to It won't be, so long as the professional politicians can prevent it. he passed. * *# «& ur influence of the movie was never better illustrated than by a recent incident cited by Mr. Will Hays: “In one of our great cities cently there was a theatre strike. ‘The theatres were closed. For two nights 1,000,000 people milled about the streets, bereft of entertainment. The city authorities sent word that the the atres would have to be reopened. It was necessary for the well-being of the city that a place of amusement and relaxation be provided for that vast citizenry. And so the theatres were opened.” He adds, justly, that in one generation the motion picture has become a public necessity. At- tendance at moving pictures last year increased by fifteen million a we The pity of it is that the gr part of what these millions of people zo to sce and hear is such rot, such a distortion of values, so destructive of good taste, a travesty on life. * *# & Ww: shall refuse to admit that America is an ingenious nation until it stops placing shower-bath fau- cets where you have to reach through the water, be it too hot or too cold, in order to turn them. Rh. IW, comicbooks.com