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

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Troubles of Our Own OLATION-PsyenoLocy, Long an American delusion, persists even in the face of hard facts. The re- cent German elections made the head- lines in our papers for a day or two, ind then we forgot them. They were dull, foreign, far away. We have trou f our own, Yet all too soon the troubles of Europe may become our own and more harassing than any we have had. Hitler, the German Fascist leader, makes the boast that within a few years his party will be in control and will repudiate the Treaty of Ver- sailles. That means but one thing— def It in the payment of reparat wo-thirds of all the reparations paid by Germany come to the United States. ‘Theoretically they goto France, England and Italy, while theoretically these nations are dis- charging their separate war debts to us. Practically the dealing in German money. If Germany should is mostly quit paying reparations, the taxpay- ers of the Allics would have to make up the difference. And then, as Edwin L. James says, there would arise ainst us a ery of “Shylock,” louder than any we have yet heard. We would probably hav to choose be- debts or taking the responsibility for precipitating tween canceling the more hostilities We it behooves us not only to watch Europe, but to watch our own step. abroad, ire not ina happy position and “Too Important for a Commuter” A® rAtn real-estate development in 4 ew York City is only four min- utes’ walk from the Grand Central. For a long time we have admired the idvertising campaign which has been built around the idea of walking to work. Some of the copy about the tor- tures of the subway has been posi- tively inspired. But the other day they ran an advertisement that gripes us. The picture showed an executive talking to a weary-looking applicant. “No, young "the headline read, “this job is too important for a com muter.” And it continued, “It needs all the energies of someone bright and up to date. N time and « office will do. Where do they get that stuff? [t's about time that commuters organized to defend their fair nar ders and wiseeracks. one who wastes his commuting to the r udevillians and our own comic papers have hith erto been the chief offenders. But this blow comes from the real-estater, tra- ditionally the exponent of the shady lane, the vine-clad cott the garden plot where you grow all your own vegetables, the little wife at the rose- covered gate to welcome vou after the city’s turmoil, the dog on the stoop, the cricket on the hearth, the chickens on the roost, the mor Country culogy f thing o payments on the life and its joys need no But som it to be said about the salu- in our poor pen, tary routine of the daily trip to the city. “Waste of time and ene dece in- Did you ever stop to think how ting th you can do ona commuting train? You can perfect your. brid many © game in excellent com- pany. You can do your cross-word puzzle. You can read the morning papers, arriving at your office alert and abreast of the world’s progress. That is, you can read unless some neighbor drops into the seat besic you, brimming with chat about last night's radio program, charged with ideas for some civie enterprise. or coyly prepared to tell you, stroke for stroke, about his week-end golf; and who will deny that conversation is restful, especially when you are on the nd don’t have to be too Failing all else, the com- muter n twiddle his thumbs, sean the car-cards and billboards for new and startling information about mer- chandise, or even catch up on his sleep. Sometimes the tra mysterious exigenc 13 receiving end attentive. n is stalled by the es of railroading, slowing you extra rest, shortening your day's labors and at the same time you the best of excuses for late ss. Sometimes, in blizzard weather, the trains don’t run at all, so you can onscience, and go to work the next day refreshed and prepared to tackle the jobs of three city fellers who caught cold by getting their feet wet while walking to work. Yes, sirree! stay home with a clear The commuter is better informed, better organized, more at case in human contacts and withal a hardier species. No job is too important for him, The Eros Campaign GYnos is an asteroid. It is one of a ~ cluster of 2,000 planetoids which once in-a generation approach closer to the carth than anything else except the me last time it was around was 1894, but nobody noticed it then It was not discovered until 1898. Cal culations show that on January 300 it n will be only some sixteen million miles ay. From now until May it will be near enough to be measured more pre- cisely than any other heavenly body that can assist the determination of a distances in the solar system, So as- tronomers all over the world have or- ganized an “Eros eampa ° during these eight months. At first blush one might be inclined to class the Eros campaign with the characteristic American orgies such ¢ Fathers’ Day, Cumquat Week « Wear-Your-Suspenders. Month. But only the grossly ignorant fail to real- ize the enuine value of astronomical Concerted efforts and the free intercha of knowledge have always been among the best attributes of the scientist. Perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say that business is rni from . The merchan- dizing and publicizing antics of trade associations may be crude foreshad ings of an era of more co-ope less competition and mo derstanding in all human act RJILW. research tion, un- et comicbooks.com 11} } i } | i 1h hh} f