Judge — May 16, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Great, Big, Newsy World HENEVER iar growl, rere’s nothin the paper today,” we tempted to retort, “What did you ex- peet?" On one recent off-day, when ipparently there wasn’t much doing, we tried a the old stunt of seeing what there actually in a single issue of one ver (the N York Times). Deliberately omitting the so-called big stories, world affairs, politics and such, here's part of what was left—just one day's gleaning: Each of the 40,000 annual appli- cants for federal jobs is to be finger- printed in an effort to keep crooks out of the government service. The superstition that a two-dollar hill is unlucky unless the corner is clipped off is so wide-spread that two- ds of the bills returned to the Treasury are so clipped, and in March lone it cost the taxpayer $10,000 to replace them, In an airplane Roger Kahn picked up mail bags from a roof. Helen Keller and another blind woman flew to Washington with a companior ‘ho deseribed the scenery below. Ruth Nichols announced that she would fly the Atlantic alone. A. twenty-year-old husband — was charged with kidnaping his own wife. H. G, Wells predicted that as a permanent cure for unemployment the people of the future will rebuild every city in the world. The League of Nations was asked to ask all ions to prohibit beauty contests they women, The Smithsonian announced that weather is being successfully _pre- dicted several months ahead by study of the sun's radiations. A steel-worker syed a railroad for 5,000 heeause since a locomotive hit his automobile he no longer has the nerve to work in high places. A descendant of the first governor Je bold to attack the tionary and to urge » hear the are because demoralize JUDGE that it fight plutocracy and bigotry. Admiral Byrd engagement because his died, Mitzi, the lecture dog Igloo “richest cat in the world,” died. Her late mistress had willed $15,000 to provide her with “unlimited portions of liver.” Babe Ruth sued a haberdasher for using his name on his store i ner “vulgar, blatant and rey od taste. inceled a Cosmetic manufacturers discovered that the older a woman is the more rouge she uses. Laundry owners dis- covered that California spends nearly 50 per cent. more on its laundry than New York docs, Charlie “better times than ever. Schwab again predicted John Dewey predicted even worse suffering next winter unless Congress acts The i vision bri asts was announced. Sinclair Lewis asked why colle should not be abolished, sir as feudalism.” y Garden quit’ the Chi Dr. Fosdick urged that “showy music” be eliminated from churches. And Mayor Curley of Boston took out an insurance policy which two hun- dred years hence will sct up a fund of > 100,000 for the poor, Who said the world was small, that everybody acts alike, that there isn’t y news? It’s a grand, big world, race is infinitely varions and up to all sorts of amusing tricks, and anybody who is bored is invited to go and try to find a merrier planet. * *# * Te was a smart school principal in New Jersey who, on the day the trout sea ed. let the boys off to go fishing. ‘The idea is that unless the teacher shows interest in what the pupil cares about, the pupil can’t be expected to show much interest in what the teacher cares about. Besides, auguration of regular tele- they “as antiquated Mary the human ping a stream as in cracking a book. School work overbalances nine months of the year and vacation i overbalance the other three months. 3 A year-round program combining proper ratio, studies within the ¢ room and varied activities outside, would m for better education and a better life for youngsters, Youth Repressed Ohio have been the sharp ques’ ome: State undergraduates king various experts on, “Are college stu- dents radical?” Answer is no. In other countries the student class is the first to grasp new ideas. It keeps the political life in ferment. Here there is scant evidence that the colleg knows what is going on outside even the gates. The important point, of course, is not that the American student is not radical. It is, as Waldo Frank says, that “he is not even conserva- tive; he is not anything.” He is pretty much dead weight in the civic boat. Yet it isn’t really his fault. His parents grew up in the tradition that children should be seen and not heard, That's out now, but parents have in their turn set up an advanced version of the same doctrine, to the effect that young minds are not to be bothered or trusted with serious prob- lems. Propaganda by the middle-aged and elderly who want to hold their places of power saps the ambition of youth, those To sce young folks in rumble dance halls and_ speakeasies, you would not say that as individuals they are repressed. But the ardent Spirit of Youth in the large is cer- tainly repressed. seats, We look forward to the rise in this country of a genuine Youth Move- ment. Not Boy Scouts, steered by their elders. Not young Communists, slavishly aping Moscow. Not posing dilettantes, trying to be different all Just healthy, inquisitive, ar- dent young men and women, testing out their own ideas under their own leaders. They will, we hope, be ither radical nor conservative in the nt adult sense of those terms. All they need for a slogan is: Be yourself. R.J.W. at once. comicbooks.com