Judge — May 24, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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The Limit thousand and twenty-eight snomists signed the protest against the tariff bill. They that it “b ‘ongress, or i the President.” Their ca st the bill seems to the layman to be undeniable. They assert that: It will raise the cost of livi It will subsidize inefficiency dustry. It will injure the great majority of our citizens. Even most of the by it. Our export trade will be reduced. Investors in foreign enterprises will suffer, Bitterness will be injected into our foreign relati passed, be vetoed by in in- farmers will lose ions. inst all this, there will be im- nefits to certain industrial- tariff revision has turned out to be the limit. It is hard to see Hoover, with his intimate grasp of economics, can fail to veto the Haw- ley-Smoot bill. how President Gandhi Wes Mahatma Gandhi was ar- rested, the headline-hunchers re- marked, “Serves him right for a trouble-maker,” and the — gravure- glimpsers, who absorb their news pic- torially, felt that anybody who looks so unlike an American as he does ought to be in It is not o settle the Ram- say MacDor job and we still, have in him. But there should be put on the record at th moment the remarks of John Hayni Holmes, who probably knows more about Gandhi than anybody else here: “There are millions of men in all countries today who see in the Ma- hatma the true redeemer of our mod- ern world, . spirit of universal peace and brother- hood c is doomed to failure, de possibly des But in the victory will be supreme. hefore the world leader. ‘Then it was Jesus.” Few Americans will bother them- selves to inquire into the basis for this extraordinary tribute. ‘The least they can do is to refrain from ignorant con- demnation, which can andhi and , tomorrow pe haps. ter tomorrow Only or seen has such a Shortage or Surplus? Ns this day of a myriad oracles know which to believe. Dr. Julius Klein making a speech about the unemployment of $50,000 r executives. He that mergers and such are throwing a lot of the big boys out of work and somebody ought to start a special bureau for them, because so much high-powered ability is going to waste. Then Mr. Cameron Beck, personnel director of the New York Stock E , says that America i shortage of 125,000 executive: problem of the hour, he says, is not juvenile delinquency but adult ine fi- ciency, and we need better training for important jobs. And on the very same day Mr. Simmons, president of the Stock Exchange, said at a Colum- bia dinner: “It can be no longer said the are failing ade- to consider the pressing prob- lems of the market place... A union is being effected between broad intel lectual analysis and pract experi- ence, and from this union is springing a power of judgment in economic questions never before at the disposal of our commonwealth,” Well, perhaps all these statements © correct after all. Looking over what's happened of late in business nd on the stock market, we're i clined to believe that maybe these 50,000 men now out of jobs weren't so good, and that there is a crying colleges well-trained And looking over ration now in college, we new lot of leaders. the new gi need for a business her expect it to come along and run the business of the nation with more gumption and grit than its fathers have shown. Amateuriana Gor news. Mr. Louis B. Dailey, 7 the new president of the tennis association, has gone to Europe to ask the International eration to their faces what they mean by saying that our teurs cannot professionals and Diplomatically his Europeans do not understand the t nis situation over here. Actually facts are that we Americ are and tired of a tradition born of aris tocracy and fostered by stale notions of gentility. Sport in America is virile and ought to be demoer: Two plagues beset it. One is commer- cialism. The amateurism, We cannot be rid of commercializa- tion. But we can mitigate its worst influence by i to place a pre- mium on so-¢ teur standing. Soon or late we've got to come to the point of making no distinction at all among players who perform in public. Only those who play for fun, in pri- vate or at least where no gate r are charged, are truly amateurs. compete remain position is other is Who Did It? Avoroatrs to Calvin Coolidge. cently we commented on the crit cisms that have been leveled against his five-hundred-word history of the United States which is to be inscribed on Mount Rushmore. In particular, we quoted from John Corbin. It now appears that Mr. Corbin was misin- formed. He has learned, “on the very highest authori that Mr. was not responsible for th errors.” oolidge manifest Has somebody been rewrit- s stuff? RJIW.