Judge — June 27, 1931 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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AMERICA’S OWN FIVE-YEAR PLAN I am at last yielding to the many urgent requests of prominent bankers and economists throughout the country to publish my conception of a plan similar to the one in Russia which will restore our ¢ nation to some semblance of its former pros- perity. My invaluable knowledge of the Russian situation has been derived from a two-hour traffic tie-up down on Second Avenue one day last week. A similar trip in 1926, when I had the old Buick, left me with horrible memories of sad-eyed children, thin from hunger, reduced to stealing Turkish Halvah from the street merch JUDGE nts who looked none too healthy the But all that is past. Today the tourist cannot help “You'd better invite the » people from downstairs, we don't want any more complaints about noise! n- “After you, Peyster—you're the senior partner!” but notice the contented faces of these little boys and girls as they munch their hot dogs and drink their home made beer. This is but an instance of the great strides Russia has made, and what Russia can do America can do. Here, then, is my 1. Govers t. This subject is indeed one to be pro foundly studied, for there can be no enduring prosper- ity unless the people of this nation have respect for the men who represent them in Washington. I have noticed a great deal of laughing and joking about our Senators and Congressmen among substantial business men, and upon one occasion distinctly overheard one man say, “Hoover-Ha-Ha.” That pointed the way to the solution. T have a list of vaudeville comedians at whom I have found it impossible to laugh in the theater and it seems to me that if we were to elect these chaps to the Senate and let the Senators go on the Vaudeville it would not only do y with all the levity in Washington but would also improve vaudeville. We might also turn over the Con gressional Record to the Tabloid people who would use pictures throughout. This would eff a tremendous sav ing in paper alone and by the judicious injection of love-interest stories, — it might be possible to eventually get the thing on a paying basis. (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com