Judge — June 21, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Changing Wagons the rr the water-wagon onto O band- n, The big parade that Dwight Morrow started is on the move. And, one by one, the drys are sliding off their old lumber- ing vehicle and hopping on the shiny new one. Not that these drys have suddenly become wets. It wouldn't be fair to say that. "s see who they are: tor Jones, author of the notori- ous and nefarious “five-and-ten law,” says that if the people of his State want a referendum on modification or repeal of prohibition, he will vote in the Senate to submit the question to the people. Senator Sheppard of Texas, who wrote the Eighteenth Amendment, will ve serious consideration” to any desire for a change shown by the people of his State. tor Walsh, one of the staunch- est and most respected of drys, says he would be “perfectly willing” to submit the question to the people of Montana and “of course I would ad by the vote in that referendum.” enators Oddie, Dill, Nye and tson take the same position, and at last accounts those stormy petrels, Senators Borah and Norris, were ex- pected to come around. Outside the Senatorial ranks there are such converts to repeal as Mag’ trate Jean Norris, Margaret Banning and Mrs. Henry Clark Coe. The lat- ter was for years a leading member of the Helping Hand, the tempe crusaders who used to and shame the bartender: Most of these men and women would not admit a few months ago the least possibility that the amend- ment need ever be modified, much less repealed. Today they not only admit but strengthen it by their own statements. Say, if you like, that politicians and are by nature trimmers. aren't. Most of those mentioned JUDGE Even their are sincere and public-spirited. if their motives were ignobl action would be of great. signified as showing their belief that the w wagon is stuck in the mud and the we band-wagon is rolling. But the r explanation, we believe, is that they are coming to realize at last that pro- hibition has failed and that some bet- ter way has got to be devised to bring about genuine temperance. Honest Confessions Prtxecetox’s class poll annually ex- cites us. The of by the grave and reverend seniors can counted upon to shock, amuse, instruct and inspire. ‘Take this year’s results: Two hundred and fifty-two would rather have a Phi Beta Kappa key than any other college distinction a nst only nincty-four who would rather win the varsity letter. Peter Arno is the orite with Titis ori always be artist, inst history, which twenty-nine favor. To the question, “What would you do if you ran the university?” fifty- one said, “Abolish chapel”; forty-four id, “Abolish four plan”; twenty-three succinctly, sign. As to the from college,” the vote was Contacts. Education. That, we believe, is ; candid vote. If memory serves, the result is closer than usus Education has pulled up a bit and contacts are maintaining their lead by a narrowed margin. But it still retains true that at Princeton as at most other colleg the idea prevails that it's less impor- tant to garner learning than to get to know the fellows who will help you get rich and climb the social ladder. We suspect that even the preference for Phi Beta Kappa is based on a hard-boiled belief that the little key 13 IPSe said ed discrectly on the wateh- chain has become a potent: influence helping you to get the job, make t club, put over the deal and win the girl. Let ’Em Exude N ore of this Manhattan ing population at big-city non Island has be the rr: of about 65,000 a year and during the coming year will lose 100,000. So the bor- ough president a lot of builders together to the exodus” by building a lot of nice, cheap apart ments. In the me of all why? Tf) her shrink. n los- reason, why. y York is shrinking, let Since her citizens have started an pdus, le exude. Read what the City Club regards as “standard of decency” in the sub y of this tortured metropolis: . Every standing passenger should some handle or support that he asp to steady himself. very standing passenger should room to move his arms vd to reach to his ets for a handkerchief when nec- ‘em e enough for instance r should far enough from his neighbor so that his face shall not be directly be- fore that of another person. “4. There should be very standing p: room eno for a passenger to m : an exit as the train approaches his destination.” This, mind you, refers to human beings! Hundreds of thousands must move out of New York and out of every other big city. Not only that, but the industries that employ large numbers of workers must move out, too, H_go mad in this process tuart Chase's favorite phrase pumping people back and forth from places where they would rather not live to places where they would rather not work. WwW. comicbooks.com