Judge — June 18, 1932 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUDGE o1 ros BENCH Mumbly-Peg N Chicago, the Republicans con- vene to apologize for the depres- sion. In Lausanne, two d: later, delegates of fourteen European na- tions meet to apologize for not p. ing their debts. Neither meeting is realistic. Neither will get anywhere. Of the two, the Lausanne meeting is the less unimportant. For the Hoover moratorium expires on July 1, What to do? The forecast is pressed Europeans will meet, “ex- we view and adjourn without ng anything definite. The real truth of the that the whole busine stalled somehow until after the pres- idential campaign here. For the United States, to whom all the money is owed, is the only important nation not represented at Lausanne. It is the only nation that can say the really decisive word. And the United States, officially, is very busy just now. [aesanne > whee One nation has had the courage, under spur of necessity, to state the hard facts. Germa said through Chancellor Bruening that she simply cannot fp nd that, “In the interest of the whole world the time has come for a decision. I am firmly convinced that from the day when all political debts are canceled the economic existence of everyone everywhere, whether employer or em- ployee, will be improved.” Of course. That’s merely horse sens Our bankers have known it s. Some of them have been Judge has said it on this e over and over again, Yet the moratorium comes to its ond with no provision whatever for that the hard- matter is has to be the future. Well, what can you ex- pect when the most impor! ion of all is off in its little corner play- ing mumbly-peg politics? Gadgets IVE thousand inventions—not one of them as yet in commercial pro- duction—were on display at the re- cent Patent Exposition. Most visit- ors threading that queer maze must have wavered’ between chuckling over the whimsical inventions and sighing for the wistful ones Which of the following would you take seriously ?—a storm making ma- chine, an automatic baby feeder, a “Scotch mousetrap” that recovers the bait, a fishing rod that ring bell when the fish nibbles, a spe linoleum necktie equipped with a sponge, a non-skid banana peel, a perfume atomizer attached to a fork for eating Limburger cheese, an electric mousetrap. It is interesting to guess what in- spired certain persons to attempt the particular things they invented. There were, for example, a reversible hat for women, invented by a west- ern cattleman; a cake of soap that will not slip out of the hands, in- vented by a nine-year old girl; « baseball game invented by a bed-rid- den old woman; a helicopter designed by a Pullman porter; a book-rack conceived by a hotel chef; a gymnas- ium device invented by a seamstr a cow-catcher invented by an actor. Thirty of the things in thi: were the work of men in pr How many of the others, do you sup- pose, came from people who, while technically free, are really prisoners —walled in by loneliness, by poverty, by frustrated ambition, by dreams 12 which nobody near them can under- stand?) The human mind is of in- finite variety and has depths and vistas which we glimpse but rarely. And it may find as much solace or Itation in making a gadget as in winning glory or gold The Deadlier of the Species UITE by accident something new has been learned about that un little pest that hovers on the springtime horizon—the mosquito. A General Electric laboratory put in a large electric furnace, to fuse quartz for astronomical mirrors. This furnace in operation set up a loud drone which at a distance sounds just like a chorus of mos- quitoes. To the surprise of the engineers, the furnace suddenly covered with the dead bodies of mos- quitoes, lured by the hum and killed by the heat. All the dead were males. And that’s how we found out what entomologists, of course, knew all the time. Only female mosquitoes hum. They do it to lure the male, who is a silent creature. Further, only the females bite! To scientists this incident has sug- gested the possibility that every home might install a “deskeeterize which would trap the male mosqui- toes by humming and then kill them electrically. With all the males gone, the race of mosquitoes which has plagued this world since man first walked erect, would die out. Good for the scientists! But to ou~ simpler minds, the Big News is still the fact that only the females bite, only the females make the dreadful noise that keeps us awake at night. Who would have believed it? RAW. d comicbooks.com