Judge — November 7, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Last Call heatse no least to give as they n fore in the great drive, ‘The money that is asked for, in every city and town, means more than the feeding shel- tering of the unemployed, though that alone would be reason enough to give. It is penance for our economic wrong- doing. It is a justification of our right to call ourselves a nation. It is, per- haps, a supreme effort to preserve the system under which we prospered hitherto, We have been fortunate. Probably no other country in the world could have stood what we have stood al- ready —the impoverishment of mil- of families—without a single outbreak of violen The Ame n people have given evidence in plenty of sound sense, faith in the institu- tions their fathers founded, undying optimism, confidence in their leaders —thus far. Let not that good sense and that confidence be betrayed. lions no time about The is to quibbl © going to do next time. anothe r winter comes, the causes that brought us to this pass must and will be rooted out. Mean- while we are in ional emergency and must deal w This is the last call. Unless it is answered, ind generously, it may prove to be the last chance for Americ we h known it to be America still. as such. Jury Duty for the Unemployed rrienp, unluckier than we, A called for jury duty the other day. He came back with the same old Scores of men lining up b inexorable judge and des- y trying to concoct excuses that would let them off. Usually we have no sympathy with recreant citi- zenship. We have known to chuckle when our side-partner was hooked for jury duty even when it nt that we had to do half his work been for him. But not so this year. Al- most anybody who has a job or a busi- ness is having a terr struggle to hang on to it, and enforced absence may in many cases be a final fatal blow. Meanwhile among the unem- ployed there are hundreds of thou- sands of well-balanced, earnest, con- scientious men who are ideally. fitted for jury duty. ‘To the harassed busi- hess man who is pressed into service the three or four dollars a day which the mise! ing what he may lo . room, it isa grim joke. But to the who is out of a job, it ndsend. any courts consider- ld be How 1 and commission- ers are making any real effort to find among the uncmploy Likability I much we Morrow died! We are reminded of it constantly, as by the negotia- tions with the French premier and by those soon to come with the Italian foreign minister. We shall feel the loss even more keenly as the interna- tional debt situation becomes mo acute and the disarmament conference draws nearer. Perhaps no talent could be of more use to America now than that skill in negotiation that Morrow had. What was his secret? Among all the explanations, perhaps the best is to be found in a little story told of his prep: on for service as sador to Mexico. He sought advi about what he should do there and got worth much, At last he 1, I don’t know what [ot do with the Mexicans, but there i thing I can do. I can like them.” The usual attitude of a diplomat toward a foreign people is. “I can lic them, Morrow said, “To can like them.” That difference is as wide as an ocean, The world’s troubles grievous and complex. many minds are lost when Dwight ambas- today are Many men of striving against cach in ether, Nothing is simple any no ill has its golden panacea, ni lem is to be more, prob a tlick of the But if there is any one pro- that is more promising than any other, it is Morrow’s—just liking »ple and being liked. The big fact at has been neglected in’ interna- al or ions since tribe first warred is the essential likeness and likability of human beings, solved by wrist, cedure Oh Yes, Football! H kre the football season is half over, and up to now this mean- dering page hasn't even” mentioned it. Already good lickings have been nded to Yale and Princeton and y and several of the big state uni- versities and who knows else. Notre Dame's winning habit broken, Mil- lions rolling in at the gates, in spite of the depression. The rules commit- tee already talking about changes for next season. And we, who by this time have usually lost our voice twice bets. three and our flask haven't devoted a single one of our winged words to the grand old me. Since we are no Grant Rice, this probably doesn’t matter to you. But because a lot of other people in their several ways our times once, also seem to be neglecting the sport, we are curious to get at the reason. And we conclude that it because football doesn’t seem so important this year. News of immer sort has filled the eye, Millions of people are out of work. Millions of dollars have to be raised for relief. We in political perplexity at home and in bad odor abroad, esme: nciers tremble ¢ i i ive y against a foe the There's a bigger game going on ‘han’ any of us have ever ched before. And we can remember the day when one n row chalk-line was for us the m: between utter joy and black despair! Oh, yes, football. Well, we'll try to be there next Saturday. R.JLW. must be inly comicbooks.com