Judge — September 13, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Village-Pumpism atreD and suspicion of the H wicked foreigner, the teaching of “fairy-tale history,” monu- ments to soldiers rather than nd all such bellicosity got a fine lac- at the Williamstown Institute from C. Delisle Burns, an outspoken Scotch professor. He showed that in England the his- tory textbooks do not have much to say about Joan of Are, who kicked the British. out of France, but spread themselves on the subject of Napo- lvon, who didn’t get away with his 1 of invading England. Civilized ss is the result of international intercourse and has had to be made 1 spite of wars. “All civilized peo- ples are in debt to Germany for music, to France for. sci to Italy for painting, and even to the Arabs for the numerals with which we calculate the cost of groceries.” And yet we g giving children the notion that ¢ zation is a local product. “Village pumpism,” he calls it, and he You have got that bad in Amerie: We have, indeed. The worst of it is that because we are blessed with and now have most of wealth, we poets. ng vast resou the world’s feared and despised. Every display of nationalism or arrogance on our part is a menace to the world’s peace. Americans at least have got to learn somehow a new concept of civilization if civilization itself is to survive. e envied, A Plea for Privacy W At with tree-sitti riding, the endurance stunts of this summer were more than ever, because the ind girls. The general indignation shows that we expected the younger xeneration to show better sense t the elder. But it is shallow criticism as some have done, against the ‘misguided, feeble-minded, _undisci- plined, sensation-seeking children who ought to be soundly whipped and put and hieyele disgusting involved boys JUDGE to work.” And it is futile to condemn the parents, beeause the parents of such children either have no control over them, or more likely are encour- aging their exhibitionism in the hop: of profit. The real culprit is Society. As Professor Bobby ly in- dicates, “the whole thing was not a spontaneous and healthy activity, but simply one induced by publicity, which is rapidly becoming recognized as one of the ma ... These children have grown up in a civilization in) which propaganda ind publicity have all but eliminated sober construction and We Americans have always had the itch to see our names in the papers, to show ourselves on the boardwalk, to be ree vy Rogers sa rcurses in American life. 180) nized by headwaiters, to get a reputation, to wear diamonds, to cut a wide swath, to be the life of the party. In recent years we've learned that there is Money In It. Make your- self conspicuous enough, for whatever damfoolery, and your doorstep will be crowded with vaudeville agents, pic- ture men, syndicate editors and other exploiters of sensation, And naturally, even the kids are at it. What this country most needs is a al of Privacy. How about start- big publicity campaign to make us Privacy-conscious ? now, Wrong Again Canes Coottper has put his foot in it again. In one of his bold 1 daily ations he discussing the merchant marine, “ or pont are dependent on our competitors to carry 60 per cent of our trade to mar- ket. Of course, the result is that they help themselves and they hamper Professor Edwin I has been looking into this and declares that he cannot find “one iota of evi dence” to support the statement. For- cign ship owners would be silly to dis- criminate inst the cargoes of their best customers, And that’s that. The moral of the matter is that you can’t write a couple of hundred words 13 a day on the front page and be all the time, Even at that, Mr. € » probably would rather be wre be President. Amateuriana ene Tunney, who held out for a million dollars for fighting Demp- has ideas about ama- ent tennis match he There is no such thing as an amateur and professional division, Tilden draws the money, doesn't he? Well, why shouldn't he take some of it away with him. Ten nis is just a piker’s business beside from but even so if he didn’t could get.” janneled this a crass point of view. realistic. Once you clear your mind of the genteel fictions of an outworn snobbery, it's hard to see how there and got i Ata was heard to s: teurism. boxi a standpoint of money. filden would be a chump nickel he collar every no doubt think But it is officials can ever be true amateurism where there are any gate receipts, Femininity Notes. No. 3 UESTION Names sent to one hundred leading evangelists elicited the admission that evangelism is a flop, thanks to the influence of radio, aut mobiles, sports and commercialist Charles Stelzle, who made the inquiry, says, “It was the almost unanimous opinion of the evangelists that men are more spiritually minded than women when once they a ‘con- verted’; that it is increasingly difficult to interest women in religion, and that the interest of women religion is comparatively superficial.” There may be here the hint of a profound philosophical truth, In the days of male dominance the the custodian of the family rel Now that she has the satisfaction of being the boss all the time anyway, she no longer feels the urge to lead the way to church, Rh. J.W. comicbooks.com