Judge — April 2, 1932 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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A Land Fit to Live In? uv of the personal ordeal of the Lindberghs some general good It has been far too long since this nation got mad. For some Years we have shown an amazing mnay come lack of capacity for public inc tion. This was noticeable as long « as 192%, when the oil scandals left us cold and a venal Republican admin- istration got off almost scot free It is noticeable now in the indiffer- ence to revelations of Tammany graft. Through the whole course of the eco nomic depression it has been a matter of wonder that the people have been so tolerant of their financial overlords, so charitable toward blundering ex perts. And even with a toweri wave of crime engu alfing us, we have nd docile this ghastly blow struck our dumb na tion's favorite household may waken us from moral leth: Analysts of public opinion have said that Lindbergh's Atlantic flight lifted us all out of a slough. We had been wallowin the ches Browning case and in de Is of other disgusting private lives. uddenly a yo you may remember, in x man did a clean, brave deed, with perfect. skill and utter modesty, We hailed it with an exaggerated acclaim, because we not only marveled at the feat and hon- ered the character, but also were mightily ateful to have something clean and decent to talk Such is the function of heroes. And perhaps it is the pitiful fate of Lindbergh and his wife, at terrific cost to themselves, to have endured this sacriticial agony for the sins of a na tion. All our shouted sympathy for them will have been proved but empty about. gossip and hypocrisy unless we arise JUDGE and bestir ourselves, all of us, to make this a land fit to live in—a land where simple, honorable folks of all stations bout quietly and unmolested, ar their children safely with no shadow of fear. can go and can Progress have been looking over a »ok published) in Boston in It is called “The Book of Commerce by Sea and Land” and the title pag vs, “Designed for the Use of Schools.” It was something of a shock to find a whole section de- voted to alcoholic drinks, telling the lucky kids of a century ago just how to make their liquor and what it was good for. Then, of course, we re- membered that in those days there wasn't any Anti But what we intended to mention was the interesting description of gin. Here's what the old school-book says: “The name of Geneva is given to tloon League, this liquor because, originally, it was flavored with juniper berr the French word for which is genevie. It was in Holland that this liquor was first made; and the only true Gene is distilled thi now. The English gin is nothing more than malt spirits flavored with oil of turpentine; and they are distilled together. It is a@ destructive drink among the lower America ix indeed a progressive land. The lowly and despised bever- which was once K destructive drink among the lower classes,” has come in a mere one hundred years to be the luxury of the proud. ‘The leveling process of democracy is so marvelous that we have no more class distinction we have risen, what was ¢ for grandfather is and no matter how high d enough sod cnough for us. JUDGE ox More Issues H™: are two more of the letters that have won prizes in our con tests on the issues of 193: Mrs. Faye Boyd Atwood of Pitts burgh, writes in part: “The right of every married couple to be able to obtain safe and sane knowledge on birth control... . “AIL legislation — forbiddin the teaching of sanitary methods of using contraceptives is out-moded and should be swept from the decks. “Then this United States of ours could hold up her head on an equality id with Holland. Holl control education is I clea where birth lized, has the nest slate of any of the civilize nations in its freedom from abortions and deaths and ruined health from ignorance. United States is seventh on this list.” D. C. Herrington of Atchison, Kan sas, writes in part: “Will we have unemployment. in surance, public works or economic planning? Should we pension idk ness while the Mississippi needs flood control, cities need slums replaced with decent housing, states need highways. deserted lands need forests, and in dustries need to sell materials? How about: financing unemployment when the money requirements of necessary work are more than available? Nearly every industry is over-capitalized, and at the same time the income tax re- turns in 1931 show that we are leavi less than 20,000 people over two bil lion dollars in incomes with which to further over-expansion of industry or entangling interests abroad.” RJILW. comicbooks.com