Judge — February 6, 1932 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Toward a Dark Age? the third year of the depression we begin to feel certain effects more serious than any felt before nent. Exploration has been discontinued for 1932 by the American Museum of Natural History. Projects which have been carried on in far parts of the earth, to the immense enrichment of man’s knowled must be postponed. Often this means a loss of ground that can never be wholly regained. Museums generally have had te I the building up of their col- lections. soa result, certain: treas because they are pert cu ures will be lost forever to the public Libraries cannot keep up their usual purchases of books. Concert pro- grams are being ¢ Theatres are dark, Discouragement) such as this works directly back to the crea tive sources, for the time of inspira- tion passes all too quickly. Books, poems and plays, thet might have been masterpieces, will never be written now. Composers will never recapture and set down the strains of music they might have given us. In many cities school teachers are going unpaid. Schools are scraping along with old or scanty equipment. Chicago, facing the prospect of clos- ing all its schools, discusses the piti- ful alternative of teaching by radio, Precious time of childhood is wasted on skimped education, The catalog of permanent evils might run on for pages. But surely these are enough. Business, we rccustomed to nceled, a NY The unemployed will be housed and fed and clothed until there is work for them again. But we can never repair the damage of undernutrition. The individual who fecls a sense of JUDGE personal failure has suffered a spirit- ual shock that is incurable. And per- haps worst of all, for the future wel- fi and happiness of the race, are the halts in the march of culture. The purpose of putting this down in print is not to make dder, but to make us madder. It is all) very well to endure. to be patient and docile, to struggle on and hope. But t begins to is th better begin to fight, denly discover that we have let our- ugh we had before we sud- selves be shoved through a one-way corridor into a new Dark P Blimping DOUBLY-VALUED correspondent writes: “LT have no 1 cuss don't use ‘em myself but [ have got an elegant new verb for you. Today I was watching a blimp wandering about above New York City. It didn’t seem to be going anywhere in- particular. (Of course it must have been adver- tising something, but I wouldn't notice words for you nowadays that.) It would dodge the Empire State, then go up and flirt’ with Chrysler and Chanin, and then take a stroll for itself up and down Broad- And so I thought, a man-about- town a-taking of his dolce far niente, ora hussy all dressed up and no place to go except window-shopping, or a lad on the loose with three hours to spare and devoting them to giving the gals on the Avenue a treat, might well he said to be ‘blimping.’ ” way. No More Lame Ducks? IRABILE DICTU, it really looks as if the quacking of the lame duck is to be silenced forever. Some of our more durable readers inay re- 13 member that they and we have bee! jointly bored by perennial ment on this p: of the Norris resolu- tion. We didn't think it ever would ss. but we thought we ought to keep ing it, even to the point of utter And noy is about to be ac rariness. yparently, it The Senate or the sixth time in And the House, which has always done the dirty job of kill- it. For the benefit of our freshman has passed it, nine years, ing nally scems all set to pass it. class, we sum up once more the pur- pose of the Norris amendment: It would advance the date of the inauguration of the President and Vice-President from March + to uary nd would on January 2 each: Congressmen would Thus new get into action two months after their election, in- stead of thirteen months after, as they do. This would get rid of the ted continue to legislate. Many of our worst laws and pork bar- rel appropriations have been passed in the short session with the aid of short session, during which defes Congressmen ne ducks, who are peculiarly sub- ject to manipulation” because they have already lost their elective jobs and hope to get appointive jobs by currying favor with party bosses. Furthermore, under the Norris amend- ment the session would not end auto- matically on March # as at present; thus filibustering would lose much of its evil power. And, finally, a new ad- ministration would t into action promptly after election, There. We hope we never have to bring up the matter —it has to go throu latures, and you know how silly state legislatures are! RodILW. comicbooks.com