Judge — April 23, 1932 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUDGE ON Ree’d and Contents Noted ECENTLY JUDGE set a new world’s record by going into receiver- ship and out again in less than three weeks. It went in because it faced one of those cock-eyed crises in which the modern business system revels, and which we ourselves don't pretend to understand. It got out ain quick use a bunch of us here in the office found that we could buy it out, and why not? That brief interval while we lolled in the arms of the Irving Trust Company was so pleasant that we thought we'd commemor: it by this special Receiv Number. This seems an apy time for it, even though Jupc own particular reception, is all over. For practically every other enterpr in the country is in receivership or ought to be. All except the banks, and they busy running: the rest of the businesses. Statistics show that month of March alone the wings in Wall Street swept tons of torn-up liabilities. during the up ten A man we know spent years learn- ing to be a banker, finally sot a job in a bank, and now finds himself running six hotels. A neighbor who went into a drug store the other day with a pr tion was a little worried to se it was being filled by none other than our old buddy, the Irving Trust C Rumor it that the Democratic National Committee is about to be taken over by Andy Mellon's banks, with Cal Coolidge as receiv ad that simultaneously the Republican ional Committee is to be pulled through by John Raskob, Owen Young and Mel Traylor. white . deed the greatest question be- rybody in the United States is whether it is more blessed to give up or appoint a receive On the s of our own experi- ence, we heartily recommend the lat- ter course, To a harassed nation we offer this Receiver's Number as id of the coming era of high es, high spirits and high hope. T°? Americ one of the many disappointments of the disarma- ment conference is the absence of Viscount Ce He was not sent as a British delegate, although he has long been an ardent advocate of peace and perhaps the best-informed on all the work that led up to the present great meeting. A key to the reason for omitting him may be found in a newspaper report which “The term most frequently ed to him is ‘idealist,’ which in some arters is a synonym for “nui. The world is indeed in asad state of mind when an idealist is considered a nuisance. appl Dry Arrogance HE insolence of the Drys_ in- reases as their fe increase. snarls again in the statement of McBride of the Anti loon League that “neither party afford to al or modification plank in its national platform Under 2 of a political fact he mouths the familiar threat. The League still insists that “a vote in favor of submitting repeal to the States would be a wet vote” and threatens to punish those Congress men who recently voted for the nentary motion to permit a vote on repeal. id breast of the profes- there flows no juice of They go on shouting that the great majority still favors pro- hibition, but they resort to every political trick to protect their doc- trine from the te And they'll probably get av with it for a while, because this is election year and a period of economic crisis. Home Defe uT of this depression have come ome gains to offset some of the losses. One has been brought to public attention by Dr. Edward L. president of the American Association. He e of the present an be called a people have come to greater realization of their need of each other. Members of the family are now turning toward each other with greater and more intel- ligent interdependence. The next generation will know better how to keep the hearth clean-swept and the flame bright.” At the same meeting Dr. John L. Elliott said, “It is the family that is saving people today. It has been the first line of defense people have fallen back upon.” blessing it Too much loose talk has been heard in the past decade about the supposed decay of home and family. If unemployment, want and bewilder- ment have drawn the millions of little cirel tighter, strengthening thus the fabric of the whole nation, we shall have learned once again the lesson of history—that however har- rowing a temporary crisis may be, the progress of humanity is ever forward. RW. comicbooks.com