Judge — May 9, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Ripe for Quackery x one of her shrewd letters from I Washington, Anne O'Hare Me- Cormick remarks that seldom has is land been so ripe for quackery as tisnow. Asa people we are, as she says, in strangely quiet mood. We have plenty of good reasons for get- ting sore and tipping over app rts, ‘ollers. Politi- “Sound they know hand-wagens and even steam Yet we keep our mouths shut, afled. how to interpret, but not silence The presidential ventions cians are nominating little more than a year off. It seems unlikely that enough can happen in a year to wipe out the great loomin con- are issue of today—unem- ployment. Viewed in the large, un- employment is the acute symptom of » breakdown in’ our total cconomic To the individual citizen it boils down to the simple question of « job for himself. Some 6,000,000 ible and willing persons were out of ork when the latest estimates were made by the overnment, We have come close to crisis—the sort of crisis in which there is both great hoy A vast a little but not yet That leader system, » and grave danger. public, mutteri loudly, awaits a leader. may be an indust rconomist, a college presid ope is that he will be bold, inspired nd informed. The danger is that he cht be rash, ignorant and dema- One is as likely as the other. Great needs often produce at men, Just as often they produce silver- tongue charlatans. From now on we shall be offered one pa v after an- other, We have got to be vigilant lest we fall for a concoction that ends it Il by killing instead of curing. xogic, Land of the Free ny would accuse the stodgy old Congressional Record of being istful, and yet in the latest issue seems to ring a note of pride. It says that the Seventy-First Con- the JUDGE That verage gress enacted 1,524 new laws! is somewhat better than the rate, Inthe past ten years there have been 6,000 new federal laws; since 1900 about 25,000; since our govern- pout 50,000, A lot of these have merely private application; only about 10,000 federal measures apply to all of us. But besides those > are the State, county al enactments. In islatures. p: 17,000, Seve ated that the a in an average / ¥ must ob- serve 29,000 laws. Suppe wanted to be a devout and im citizen and resolved to learn eac ene law that you should obey. Allow- ing Sundays and holidays for rest and review, it would take you not quite one hundred years. At that, wouldn't it be worth the time, for the sake of living in this Land of the Free? The Old-Time Religion A if book larnin’ hadn't done enough harm already, it now bids fair to ruin our grandest institution, the G. O. PP. Bob Lueas, the exeeu- tive rctor of the Republican N. tional Committee, is pretty gloomy about the way eddication is weaning young people away from. conserva- tisin. Each year about 2,000,000 young and women come of voting < e do the cries Mr. Lucas. ‘They don’t seem to go down his alley. He thinks they would if they were “schooled in the history of the Re- publican party.” But the colleges sren't doing the job. Professors even go to the scandalous extent, he says, of ouraging free trade! The out- look is blac Lucas would call it pink. says: “It seems to be hope pect a reform in the text-books which teach free trade, internationalism, public ownership of private industry, abolition of party government, &c., and it is apparently equally hopeless ment began, person living go? to expect the teachers in institutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism and socialistic theories.” he alternative is clear. hifalutin perfessers can't be fired a their sinful books burn then we'll have to fall back on the ancient meth- nstruction of the young by pre cept from the elders, plain. talk by plain folks. ‘The their politics st ods- new voters must got t from the lips of the old-time state and county leaders. Roll out the old cracker Spread the sawdust. Start the talking and let the young ‘uns cluster about to gape and drink in the ever- lasting truth. Mr. Lucas is very sure just what the truth is. It never oc- curs to him that the professors may have a glimmering of it. Fifty million henchmen can't be wrong. Nobody Loves an Expert Ik all this deflation deflated so drastically as the busi ness of Experting. Even the expert's best friends telling him where he gets off. The case against hin everybody knows, is that he touted the boom market right up to the crash, and ever since has b recovery comes J. nothing has been en see ust around the corn Now M. Keynes, the economist, with the blunt remark that the experts “talk much greater rubbish than an ordinary man can ever be capable of.” These business spokesmen, hes: though “not so gay and foolish as th were a year ago,” are still predicting business recovery in six months or a year, “for no better reason, so far as I can discover, than that so many months are surely long cnough for something to happen.” The plain truth is, as Mr. Keynes says, that the whole scien nomics, banking and fi hind the times. Perhaps it will never catch up until it begins to pay more heed to the situation of that neglected character to whom Mr. Keynes refers —the ordinary man, r of eco- RJ. W. comicbooks.com