Judge — December 12, 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Purely Personal Is the train to Great Neck my seat companion was a stern-featured gentleman in ministerial clothes of sober hue and design, Some sort of churehn I guessed. Probably a | strict Puritan and very intolerant, if appearances have meaning. ‘To draw him out, TE made a remark about New York's 36,000. speakeasies. His. re ply was what T expected. “Td like to see them all pad locked,” he owled. “T tell) you they're a curse, a men «© to civiliza tion, Frankly, I'm doing all in. my power to put them out of business.” A professional reformer, I decided. Aloud [ said, meaningly, “No doubt you've a personal reason for wanting the speakeasies closed.” “Pil say!” he retorted bitterly. “They're ruining my cordial shoppe business!" ell cheese, though, wasn't it?” ( Convention Forecasts Ae “Prue Democratic party will plan to i, meet in) Philadelphia until some one reminds them that it’s known as the City of Brotherly Love. P Republican orators will point. out that, although the dinner pail is empty, if a Democrat is elected there won't even be a pail. Will Rogers will attend both con- ventions. The Socialists will nominate some- nd he will get hiy picture in the papers. The Democratic Convention will reach sixty-five ballots and be as hopelessly deadlocked as two heavy- weight prize-fighters. Two inspired delegates from Cali- fornia will cast their votes for Wil- liam Gibbs McAdoo, Hoover delegates will point out that during his term Capone was sen- tenced to jail, the mortality rate of ed, and Columbia won 1 on measles de a major football game. Three hundred and forty-three delegates will mispronounce the name Roosevelt. Senator Borah will make a couple of speeches, threatening to run on an independent ticket, and then just be- fore the convention admit he was a Hoover man all the time. A humorist will write an article comparing the Democratic with the Vanderbilt Convention. The Democratic Convention will last so long that Eugene O'Neill will drop around to get a few ide ; “Did you fall in?” —A. S. “What d’you think, I live here!!” th comicbooks.com