Judge — February 20, 1932 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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| JUDGE os THE BENC They Shall Not Fail utmosphere in kGarpiess of the atmosp which the disarmament confer- ence opened, the plain peop of the world must keep telling one inother this: Don't expect too much, Don't expect too little. Expectation that there will be a ereat reduction of ind would end ina mood of eynical despair. Expectation that) the thing 1 farce would simply lend armaments is bound to be vain, whole will prove rid and comfort to those sinister influ ences who want to make it se. trial at Public opinion is on trial at Out of this, the effort measurable pre will come if through every ¢ The statesmen a on Geneva. home. greatest in ternational ever quade, some ss must come. It people inization and me upon the Verdun: “They everywhere, dium of expression, insist learned at shall not fail.” x lesson Got Any New Slang? Vines at Smith College are ha their pretty heads in shame sin Dean Nicholson told them in’ che that their slang is old stuff, dean likes slang, because it is pun- vent and brief. In the good old days, students originated slang, but now they simply borrow it from other sources, and they're about «hundred behind the times. As reported in the press, she told the she says, college years girls that until they can do better than “OK” and “KO” they might as well say “yes.” (She didn’t tell “em inything ut saying “no.”) But ter all, trying to invent new slang is a rather hopeless and all too. self- conscious business. We read the JUDGE is about k ancient other day that “Oh, yeah fifteen hundred years old, to the pronunciation of the Anglo-Saxons, The best slang is the old slang. and we don't get a really tion to the vocabula than once in a decade, It’s been a long time sini our attentive Our readers—who have failed us dis- mally in the matter of supplying cuss words--can good ad nore ears have heard any. redeem themselves by sending in crisp. fresh We'll print the best one words. “Py On, Yeu > B>> Ce Plethora of Holidays Hours are great stuff for the editorial writer. Not that he ever gets a day off; editorial schedules roll on inexorably while stockbrokers and bookkeepers loll in Nevertheless, holidays are toil-savers for us slaves of the galley-proof, for they are by their very nature Ic and Inspiration. endar of daily idleness. as In the whirling cal- events they are the fixed points. You can nt on ‘em to stay put. You can write about a holiday or an anniversary weeks ahead and be confident that the golden words will not be changed to dross. by an assassin’s bullet. by an act of Con- ress or by a statement from Otto hn. This week, for example, is pecu- liarly rich in ready-made topics. Lent has begun, We have | ated the birthday of the Great Emancipator. Those of us who are yet young enough—and who is not?— ce have done the proper things in mem- ory of the gentle, Saint Valentine. Next 3 day of the peculiarly hial year. And then, in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama it is Mardi Gras, and we hope they all have a swell time. And for remember that it is just thirty-four vears last Mon day Since the battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor. If we should inquire closely, we would probably find that somewhere it is Clean-up Week, somewhere else Prune Week, and for all we know the haberdashers may be excited romantic nday will bring the birth father of his Country, notable in’ this bicenten- od measure, we Wear - Your - Suspenders Week, or wives observing Better - Husbands Day. It's too much! The pen hesitates, splutters and falls motionless. — It simply cannot do justice to such a plethora of subject-matter. re \ ©) SR, Political Tip Here read closely Roosevelt's. coy admission that he is a candid. for the Democratic nomination for President, we are pre pared to hazard the following tip for our readers: Watch Newton D. Baker, “8 * Coxeness has been asked to desig nate a al aunt” as a con sort for Uncle Sam. The says that women are becoming so im- portant that they ought to be repre- sented in the national symbol. He ests something like “Aunt Sam- Franklin proposer anthy How about Auntie-Saloon-Le: comicbooks.com