Judge — November 1934 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Public Blood Lust AY what you will but we haven't ad- vanced an inch since the days our ancestors took their lunch and the kid- dies and attended a hanging purely in What with the re- the holiday. spir cent occurrences in which w find a spir- es of a ter for g for th per bred t y purposes, and a line a mile long forming to see the gars in which the wretched Hauptmann hid his gains, I would say we have progressed backwards in our morbidity. For an in- telligent people we gloat too definitely lengthily and loud We are helped along in such disgus Pay n this ¢ avado-gang erable ly over grisly detail ing wallowing by the p ers of course must be sold sideration far outweighs ian aspects of in the Lindber of the m torments e¢ humanit sm. Thus we find h case weeks and weeks volved. if we read jously each and eve tures to the r we k completely pleasurable in a nice macabre way. We ourselves become the saddened parents and the contemptible We pride ourselves on our ute detail, Wheth interest becon ow it or not ou ‘oner eriority to im. To sublimate these horrid self- gratifications, we imagine the bally 1 publicity will act as a deterrent to other crimes of like nature. Actually we are acting with bad manners and are getting as much value out of the whole thing as we would out of a detective 00 papers go decidedly case, to £0 Thus a new edit some new tremen- fle has been dug makes it worse, the police id have all beec They have hearkene ious and purely nt if he saw a e end of a rifle from an- me of the ridicul e police did during the third xy of Hauptmann, su ing phonograph records over and over to make him bri might have sounded to a movie producer sense in the = baseball, football is dying on its cleats with a bare 80,000 the Army-Yale game; a bare 100,000 he games on the Coast; and a $25 buying you a co alposts for the Arm ne important cl the ground can ¢ ple behind the Notre Damer. ge my ear to ct is that the Big Three has awakened from its long slum- sychairs of th club to re- alize that fos y taken away scer Jant type of team by the rough- necks whose parents came over in the Names like Kadlic appear in yer lists of Princeton, even more unpronounc eras nd other ble nai ppear on the rosters of the ie more unpronounceable the + course, the more chances th will have of winning. On the other and more weakening hand I see th ly th has gone direct- oO he sl ian, crushing ts. they t Y are rapidly absorbing the scial technique which in- slo coats and soft- ng te Prus now have g emselves le man a coach anc playing clud felt hats and lo: Notre Dame, The Fight- i om Ireland, have got them- selves a William Shakespeare on the squad! Red Democracy VERY once ina while to make my- self feel badly I rummage around in my old attic marked “Thoughts on Democracy.” I usually come to the fol- lowing conclusion: There i as Democracy. By wh at the minority alw rules, be it Red; Red, White and Blue; Fascist or Yall Street. Look to Russia where the id, A an ex-movie extra applied the necessary energy to push a hundred and sixty million people around. The number has risen a million or so but ny moment another pants presser nd force an entirely new set the inert millions. It see of N no suc h Tm pants pres: roan necessity to happen. (Page ture for such a lease please) comicbooks.com