Judge — January 3, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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4 JUDGE The Call for Courage ite dawn of a new year ix always T: curious blend of rose and gray. ~ Rose for the hope of new. vie- tories. ray for the shadows of past defeats. This year the shadows are darker, heavier. harder to forget. On the misty mountain-te ring » not noticeably Bat here's to it! onomists of twenty-cight nations, at the Paris meeting of the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce, list of cleven causes of the world wide depression. ‘Then, ina f tion, they day is not so jocund, on its toes. anal resolu- eto the world: “This council urges upon issued this ines: everyone in’ every country and) in every walk of life the necessity of dis- pelling fear and pessimism, of pro moting permanent peace and of active co-operation in courageously and per sistently lending about hand in’ bringing Ajustment of the economic machinery, to the end that normal conditions may be restored at the carliest: possi a rapid 4 moment. Pessimism and fe sarily twins. It is not yet) perhaps time for optimism. It is more than ever the time for dauntless courage. rare not neces Pee-Wee Politics Cram y the Senate is a national pastime in which we do not often join. We honestly think that the old hoys, for all their fuss-bud useful ative. But we yet just as sore as any Rotar we read about their “hazing” of Dwight Morrow. It was proper enough to seat him, as a freshman Senator, in the back row, He is no great shakes as an orator, so. that it doesn’t matter much that the I- le an't see him or that he will have difficulty in catching the eye of the chair. “Around the mahogany. how ever, he is a brilliant worker. There- fore it was sheer idiocy to put him on the most insignificant committe Ray Tucker says, “The Sena ting. are as well as dece n when and file, which consists of small-town lawyers. shers, farmers, business men and. politicians, suffers from an inferiority complex in the f members with at names.” If a man like Morrow went to work for any bank or business or univer- sof new sity. he wonld be greeted with open the toughest os in the place would be dumped on his desk. In the “greatest deliberative body in the world” his tremendous talents must to waste for period of months, or er, in the piddling arms f poe-wee polities. Plan or Perish ? Yr rit has flung down the gauntlet to ¢ in England. Sir Oswald Mosley’s recent: manifesto. was dra matic because it was the rallying ery of the human destiny has been the plaything of the elderly. ‘The present British cabinet—supposed to be radical—has an average age of past GO. Pre MacDonald is 64. nents are Stanle. nd Lloyd George, who is 67. Sir Oswald is 34. Of the sixteen rssociates who signed his statement. only three are past 50, and the average age is #2. The is no vigorous middle-aged group in England; the best blood of that gen- eration was spilled and lost forever. Those who were too old to go to war re still running the rusty machinery. Those who were too young to go young men, For too long. hier His chief oppo Baldwin, who is six are under 4 war are now grown up, lusty, el dy to ta spirit of England is youthful. But perhaps the more feature of Sir Oswe its demand for a program of p ning. “A national economic planning organization is as essential tod to the future prosperity of Brit ionalization has b essential to the survival of separate ustries. Such a national plan must be worked out to adjust the bal of British production to the new eyed and re impor d's docume nee 13 ditions now prevailing in the world A new balance between agricultural and industrial production must be ere ated, together with an elasticity and ity of industry which is es to survival in’ the ch d To execute such a plan, an cabinet of five members is world, emergence: demanded. Americans will do well to heed the writing on the wall. For we ourselves may soon have to turn to some form of conscious s rial and economic pl ning, Soviet Russia's Five-Year Plan has caught the imagination of young men in all countries. In spite of propaganda to the contrary. the best testimony is the Communist the plan iy progress- Russia has chal ed the world. Socialist’ England is likely to be the next to chart course and set up controls. ist America—or if fer, - cratic Americ has fourteen months been helpless in the grip of cconomie depression. For us, the al- ternative may well be this: Plan or perish, Will the call to action come here, as in’ England, from the new seneration > Femininity Notes. No. 10 Tiscountess Aston gave a “manless dinner” in London to signalize the achievements of women during the past vear. The guests included women “high in law, medic ney, lite polities, busi- ness, diplor i ature, arts, detection.” mitted. The orchestra was female, The waiters n. This was explained offi cially ay an oversight. But we suspe: that t adies got a kick out of being waited on by these humble specimens of the once dominant sex. The best of the affair, however, was re were no speeches. Un- doubtedly women are svon going to be in control of everything, and we can quite reconcile ourselves to that, if it means the abolition of after-dinner speaking. RSW. in’ erin No men guests were ation and ¢ were m comicbooks.com