Judge — April 1933 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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JUDGING THE BOOKS S° You’RE in trouble are you, reader? You can’t meet the pay- ments on the car, the radio and ve Washing machine. You have othing in the bank, the kids have mumps and you've nothing to ook xd to except to spend the st ¢ our life in slavery to the | butcher, and the landlord. You ever had anything, you never will have anything and you never hope to have anything. Well, reader, you don’t know noth ing. Suppose you were William Fox Suppose like him, you had struygled chiselled, labored and worked your head to the bone for half your life ind built up thru. these efforts a $300,000,000 business. Suppose you dreamed of expansior nd an idealistic world in which you h profits equably with your | tockholders and, to a limited extent, with your workers, Suppose you were an honest capitalist Cif that is not a contradiction in terms). Then suppose at the height of your success, with everything looking rosy, alony had come a set of villains a sroup of bankers who had looked over your business, decided that you were running it without benefit of their advice and that it was high time they took vay from you. Suppose they 1 yone ahead and done this and through eve device ef economic chicancery, cutthroat ethics and scheming, they had calmly stepped in and carried out. their | piratical plans, finally, after a tooth | and nail struggle, wresting your | business from yon, looting it and | leaving: it a bankrupt shell. Ah, then you would have some- thing to come moaning to us about. | Fie on your petty troubles! This, in a bird's eve, then, is ap- proximately what happened to Wil- liam Fox, according to his biography as put down by Upton Sinclair, the | paperbagy cooker of Pasadena, and | interpreted by that keen fellow with an eye to his socialistic code. The book is led cunningly “Upton Sin- | Presents William * and we enjoin you to look into every line of It is the most important and ex- citing book we have read i For, whether you anarchist or a 1 yok gives you a sympathy for liam Fox, who Jewish though he was, had an honester code t the Anglo-Saxon “Banksters” who got him. In fact, when you know the facts of his downfall (if they are true—and they sound true) you can forgive him pictures he produced (Page 27, please) No more Rune BACK THE evora We've abolished the restaurant check room tip AGAIN STATLER HOTELS PIONEER * Think of it! No more tips to check room attendants at our public restaurants. We've banned these gratuities... for once and for all. This check room toll-taking has been part and parcel of hotel usage for decades past. It has always annoyed us. We have felt that it was an imposition on our dining room patrons and have contin ually tied to limit it. Now i Statler Hotels it’s over ... finished Attendants at the check rooms of our public restaurants «wi// not expect...and cannot accept... a tip. We know you will approve ...and applaud... this reform and cooperate with us in making it fully effective. These hotels have always tried to smooth the hotel patron's way. They were the first to bar gratuity-soliciting attendants in washrooms, the first to reduce * * news stand and cigar stand prices to street store scales. They were the first to introduce most of the features of the modern hotel. You remember, of course... that it was the Statler Hotels that pio- neered practically all the conveniences and comforts you demand today... a private bath with every room, free radio reception, etc., etc. The list of these Statler innovations is long... and is constantly being added to our spirit of service marches on. *++ HOTELS STATLER = - « Gesdom + Bf fale » Clvebud . Detreit » Stdeucs HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA IS THE STATLER IM NEW YORK 1 comicbooks.com