Judge — October 1932 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Alas! WAS sorry to see the skids yo under Jimmy Walker. I think he deserved a touch of the boot but not the whole boot. I think someone understanding ought to have stood him in a corner, belabored his sknop, knocked some sense into it and then coronated him King of New York. I think New York will never be the same without Jimmy. It is liable to go back into United States again, right back into blue-nosed savagery and then where will we be? Under Jimmy it was rapidly becoming the only civil- ized place in these Ame It had a High Hat flavor, a continental air and a precious freedom. It looked as Poor Jimmy! ania RawTyui! if it would develop into a sort of Kingdom of Monaco, attached to the dull body of Hoover, sporting. the loveliest women, the most civil- ized men and the est living. (Granting the depression.) For I believe New York ought be ruled by someone hybrided of Fred- erick the Great, Edward VII and Lou I. sort of just saint with the ability to carry a silkhat smartly, wield a mean sceptre, dance a jig on the stuffed shirt and yovern be- nignly at all hours from a sp y. Jimmy Walker had the makings of such a ruler, He needed some sea- soning, a less dangerous crease in his trousers and someone to clean out the mmany clubs with bunches of machine guns. I believe the trouble with Jimmy to be too much Tammany. All his training came from Tammany. He tried to adapt their poolroom code to the decent places It couldn’t be done any more than you can get Tammany leaders to marry women weighing around a hundred, live elsewhere than Brooklyn, and not wear white socks with high laced shoe I think in time Jimmy would have crept out of these mugs and would have put them back on the fronts of street cars where they belonged. I think that worse than getting another Mayor Hylan again would be vetting a stuffed shirt. A Hoover would make New York as dull as Toronto on Sunday I think without a Walker to greet foreigners, Europe willagain imagine the Indians back into power, Think of them landing among the Boston Cod or the Floridian orangeer: stead of New York and the civilized! I think that while Jimmy is out of office he ought to learn to d a little less execrably. He might look up the Prince of Wales for pointers on the graces and his own stood t brain and natural instincts will do the His admirers did not throw rosc petals under his feet because he be- longed to a Tammany Club. Nobody ever threw anything but beer steins at a member of Tammany. I hope Jimmy Walker will be back comicbooks.com