Judge — November 29, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Democracy Vindicated ince the ing « whisked fog pocrisy and equivocation, and the hori- zon ahead stands forth more boldly. It was a wholesome elec All partisan- ship aside, it’s a good day's work that clects or re-elects such men as Mor- row in New Jersey, Cross in Con- necticut, Costigan in Colorado, Walsh 1 Mon Ritchie in) Maryland, Borah in Idaho, Rolph in California, Norris in Nebraska It's a good day's work that defeats 1 Heflin in Alabama and a Butler in Massachusetts. It’s a good day’s work that registers 1 powerful anti-prohibition majority in nine out of eleven States where that was drawn, We take no pleasure in the discom- fiture of President Hoover. Never happy in his handling of purely poli col problems, he will find himself more than ever at odds with a Congress be- vend party control. He now has small chance of putting through the structive” leg his heart. to be lections a fresh and ex- breeze has been blow- away some “con- ation which is close to By all precedent, he stands retired two years hence. Only once in two generations has a party which lost Congressional power in the middle of an administration held the Presidency at the next election. Herbert Hoover has deserved bet- ter of his countrymen than this. He made his mistakes, notably in sign- ing a disgraceful tariff bill. But in the longer view, it is the sins of an carlier generation of Republicans that ire being visited upon him. Prosper- ity and ‘prohibition were inherited is- sues. It was Hoover's luck to be around when they went sour. Yet our regrets for the misfortune of an earnest and admirable man must yield to our renewed pride in the citi- zens as a whole. Faith in democratic institutions often falters. The people at times seem to be deaf, blind and dumb. The possibly superior virtues of dictatorships and other revolution- y forms of government are hen suddenly, argued. under stress, the peo- ple rise in their might, the personal- ities of candidates are projected clearly, issues cut clean, party lines shatter and an independent vote is cast that profoundly changes the trend of a whole period. Thus, though all vindicates itself. 00 rarely, democracy No Gain Without Some Loss An t the first of Janu work will begin on the great amusement center which is planned for that por- tion of New York City bounded by Fifth and Sixth Avenues, Forty-eighth and Fifty-first’ Streets. Con these boundary lines carefully. You don't have to be than half a man- about-town to know that they enclose ion’s most concentrated, genteel, most resource ful a most delightful speakeasy Those who appreciate the quict charm, the ivacy, the clubbiness, and the genial ce of the modern speakeasy | long been versity and to Mr. John D. Rockefel- ler, Jr., for leaving this wide oasis so long undisturbed. Now the development is going to supply jobs for about ten thousand workmen, That is being hailed as a big step in the relief of unemploy- ment. But what about the offsetting loss—the waiters, bartenders and highly-skilled doorkeepers who will be thrown out of work? And what of the habitues who will henceforth have no place to go but home? more most daltogether Femininity Notes. No. 9 I Copenhagen the married women formed a union to spy upon hus- bands and tip off the wives of philan- derers. And now the married men have followed suit. The chairman of the husbands’ union states that “dis- creet detectives will operate on the streets, in the big department stores, near public telephone booths and in 13 small intimate cafés and bars. So at last we discover wh that is rotten in Denmark. “Nailed to a Golden Cross” tit is However quiet the German front at any given moment, the lowed to may be world will not for long be forget it. Let there be these demands made by the Ab jon of the treaty as “immoral and inval 2. Revision of the Young plan. Restoration of universal military re but a resort to to achieve Ger- many’s indepe ndenéd and social liber ation.” 5. Laws to make export of capital treasonable. 6. Elimination of Jews from Ger- man life. That is not all, The Communists © a program, too. Their keynote is s expressed by the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, which declares that Germany was “nailed to a golden cross” by the Versailles treaty, and that “to expect that the German proletariat will to the United States bourgeois rulers billions of marks annually for the period of the Young plan is to ex- pect a'miracle.” In short, the simple fact for Americans to bear in mind is that whether Germany goes Fascist or Communist or whether constitu- tional government is maintained, there is likely to be a suspension of reps ayments, and when, as and if spens, the other European na- tions will have to suspend payments on their war debts to us. and dangerous and our nation has got to cope with them. We still pin. our faith to catch-words about individual- ism, while the rest of the world is lity of conflict between and communism. We still prate tion while the eyes of all others glare at us. forces are R.JLW, comicbooks.com