Judge — February 13, 1932 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE It’s the Red-Ink Menace Now numbered much more than two-tenths It is, however, + this issue of Jepar has any Big Of one per cent. of our adult popula — the bkine for th Messag all: Req tion. ers. whose d I Messoge at all about the Red "iisd, and finally, the events of the world in which advertisers are content past few years | American instituti Menace, it is in a paraphrase of the neat rhyme of a current song: Don't take it serious, it's not at all with mere credit) announcements at the beginning and end of cach pro ve shown Hy ineatentons: tened with overthrow, the — ram, ‘The cure for blatant advertis | “The Red Menace simply doesn’t at comes not from the reds but — ing rests with the public itself." And y ; | exist. Twelve years ago it was the from others, The said institutions, h maintains with some success that. | horrible spectre with which the Ka Presw@oably. are personal liberty, ine “In the long run. be casting in | | Klux Klan scared. its millions into ‘lividualism and capitalism, Well, America is completely controlled bs | | donning sheets and —pilloweases, the greatest blow our liberty hay ever the people, through their government. ha Eight y ago it was a shopworn StHered was prohibition, which was though not ay directly. th) : Stal ie te Republi administered, you recall, by the smug 4 t Britain, Perhaps it ' party in electing ind felks of the Anti-Saloon In- iy harder here than it is abroad for a iT Dawes. It has now degencrated inte ‘ividualism, as Charles A. Beard has small minority to dictate what the red herring dragged about dis. Teeently pointed out. has been broken public shall hear, but the power © i consolately by second-rate dema- own by at least fifteen important the American public over broadcast . | goguen . : forms of government interference, ing is unquestioned and absolute i . sponsored by every President, ait whether Republican ‘or Democrat, S i Hn during the past forty years. And Wu ] | capitalism began to get shaky along re | ia’! in the autumn of 1929, and has got W oe : shakier ever sinee. thanks to the com ‘) bined efforts of speculators, bankers a and the capitalists themselves. In its prime, the Red Menace was “MUN (ADIE(s Mei | supposed to be this: a conspiracy (a) | ' t i ' } > is not Even se. we remain obdurate— be the red flag. but the red ink; not the use every time we turn on the radio bomb but the bunk; not the Bolshevist. We get a further dose of disgust. but. the bull. Therefore we welcome then introduced in) Congress hb planned, financed and directed from Russia, by which (b) vast numbers of Communists in this country were be- sure | Senator ! ing recruited (c) to “overthrow Couzens calling for a survey by the | uP Ame n institutions.” Radio Commission. He wants. the : ; We have now found all three as- Commission to find out: ] Mi. sumptions to have been false. What information. is Nee First, we have ned that the OF Russians are too busy with planning vay at home to plan any funny business done to control or per- | over here, too much in need of cash to Sacred Cow : commercial radio ad- | spend any here, and too ignorant of vertiving. 1 American conditions to direet any Qostr of our friends among the What is done by other countries. ma! conspiracy here, Whatever wild ideas broadcasters naturally object to Whether it would be possible to : is they may once have had about fo- remarks made on this page to the announce only the names of sponsors a menting revolut in the United effect that radio advertising should be — of programs. 7 States have long since been forgotten abolished. We have received, for ex- ‘The facts ought to be very easy to \ in the terrific effort to lift their own ample, a pamphlet by Dr. Henry A. The theoretical questions” are standard of living Bellows of the Columbia Broadcast- supposedly i Second, there are practically no — ing System which presents the ablest the — words i Communists in this country, in spite and best-tempered argument we have ure still a il of the lamented A, Mitchell Palmer scen for the commercialized program. andthe ides ‘of suppressi . i and the lamentable Ham Fish. Re- He concedes t t “No one would deny 1 of offensiv ion with rad any form of salesmanship, however nd intrusive, is profanation of © of our most sacred cows. ROJ.IV. | liable figures show that the outright that th is a good de radicals, all put together, have never advertising in ¢ comicbooks.com