Judge — December 20, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Let Nothing You Dismay ome there be among us, even now, down the “When rumble, * who ery Christinas times it is not fitting spirit. hard,” they to he merry Why not. forsooth ? cise poverty by a shorten the b are so Can we exor- scowl? Can we adline by lengthening we restore courage there never yet was a Christmas when sour souls couldn't find yood reasons for om. In the days of Cromwell the celebration of the ancient festival was forbidden, Vor sixteen years merriment at Christ mas time was kept under the ban by the puritans, Whenev tuke the joy out of life, serateh him and you'll find a puritan, ‘Three centuries Shakespeare had the right ide when he Twelfth Marin. Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan, Sir Andrew Agnecheek. O, if 1 thought that, Ud beat him like a dog. Gilbert said the other day, “A puritan is a person who pours somebody tries to Wrote in Chesterton righteous indignation into the wrong thing The is room cnongh for righteous indignation today, God knows! Bat it ought to be directed not the f. economic mst those who make merry in of hardship, but against: the mismanagement — that brought hardship to the richest of all ations. Well-fed, well-clothed, well-housed heard to We're cutting down on Christ ifts this year.” Are they seiz in-excuse to pinch pennics, to get Or are they giving that much more to. the poor? Simplifying the Christmas dinner may be good for your stomach ay well as your pocketbook, but it will nd for your spirit, too, if you use the saving to help feed the unem- ployed. But there, we're b persons are remark virtu ously, out from under obligations? nning to sound JUDGE bitter ourselves, and we don't to be, this week. Good Men Wis never more to will ay cherished Good er Was never my salutary. Let us pause briefly to be gay. te forget our own troubles while remem bering those of others, to give all we can and be joyful for what little we get, to roll in the Yule log. hang the mistletoe, light the candles, quaff the howl and ery in chorus, “God rest ye. erry gentlemen, let nothing you dis may! ‘The day after, we'll go ont and show ‘cm that merry gentlemen their ht all the harder because you disin: Success Story a tale from real life which has the virtues not only of being exactly true, bat of having no moral whatsoever. There was a bookkeeper ina Jersey bank. He had worked there his life. His salary had been $2,200. most of for some One day in they fired him beeause he was too old This seemed reasonable. sinee he had assed his cighticth year, He had Lup about $7,000, Although alone in the world, he did not feel ri the old men’s home. He make w start in life. himself cane and a box of cigars, went over to New York. picked a brokerage house and settled down as atrader. Judged by the rules of con servative finance, he did it all wrong. He did not invest. He speculated, buying and selling with the greatest rity. No long pull for him, The first year he made four thousand dol- The next year, 1928, he made thousand. In the summer of lars. he decided that prices were too He sold-out, lock, stock and When the crash came he had it of $120,000, all of which is now in the bank or salted away in > securities, of cighty- four, he sits high and handsome. staols ing his half-dozen twenty tive-cent cigars a day and watching the silly world yo by, The Folly of Forced Competition I' the copper industry has got te- gether to hold down production. that is a violation of the anti-trust But the laws violated are out worn misfits, Se says Samuel Unter laws, ht. Enforced com at sab petition has bro it everpro duetion and wicked waste of natural | resources. Producers of copper. oil. | Toand other resources should not be permitted. they should be ypelled. to combine or tput and pric lation, © agree ents as toe >. under government As Mr. Untermyer says, the deple tion of our natural resources shows an 17 incapacity for govern ment The fact that the eld anti trust Jaws still stand on our statute hooks is further evidence of that. in- Still the Big Three I football Harvard. Yale and Princeton are ne lon the Big Three—not even in their own estima tion. But tl in “Who's Who.” Tn number of gradu- ates listed in that excellent directory yo still hold) supren nal leaders of of the supposed intelle Americ . the colleges rank as follows: Lait 6. Cornell, or vard Brown rice 5. Columbia, . UL of It remains to n what a generati will ‘Two centuries a s Who, | it would have consisted almost wholly | of Harvard and Yale men, Perhaps a century hence the book will be called | "Sh there will be no- body in it but graduates of Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, ete., with a sprinkling of co-eds. RJIW. comicbooks.com